Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Pretending… | 8/12/25

Episode Date: August 12, 2025

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Where is the crime? So I'm reading a story about a Maryland man who was arrested after an unusual and deceptive incident involving a friend. Okay, so it's unusual and it's deceptive. But is it a crime? According to police reports, the suspect told his friend that he had arranged for him to meet a woman. When the friend arrived, he discovered that the woman was actually the suspect himself disguised in women's clothing. So, well, you know, icky and, dude, what are you doing? What's the, is that an actual crime?

Is that fraud? Are you misrepresenting yourself? I mean, you are misrepresenting yourself, but for real? Is that a crime? So I guess he was arrested, I guess for fraud, harassment, attempted assault, depending on the alleged intent. I don't see the crime. I see your friend saying get the F out of here.

I see maybe if you didn't recognize that you were the woman to your friend. Like if you were actually pretending that if you believe that you were the woman, maybe that's a crime impersonation. I don't know. But it strikes me, you know, weird and, you know, a little icky. But I don't know that it's a crime. If I say to you, hey, I've got to hook you up with a date. And this girl is, well, she's not really good looking, but she has a sweetheart.

And then I come over dressed in a dress. Pretending to be that girl. Yeah. I don't know that that's a crime. But, you know, I just, it makes me laugh. The whole thing just makes me laugh. I know, I know it's just me. Welcome.

Welcome to chewing the fat. So things are going so well in the country of China that people are showing up and pretending to work. Wait what? Yeah. So apparently, young people. in China of the teen years are, and not only teen years, but young adults, I mean, in their 20s and 30s, who can't find work, are showing up at these businesses pretending to work.

According to this, 14% or more than 14% of youth are unemployed in China. And so with real jobs, hard to come by, and some young adults would rather pay to go into an office than just be stuck at home. Okay. So this guy that they interviewed for this story said that he had a food business venture that failed last year or in 2024. And so he started to pay $4.20 a day,

31 a day, to go into a mock office run by a business called Pretend to Work Company. I mean, this may be a genius idea to have people pay to come into your building and pretend to work. There he joins five colleagues who are doing the same thing. He says, I feel happy. I feel good.

I got a place to go every day. We're good to go. Oh, okay. So rather than just sitting around, they can use the computers to search for jobs. Uh-huh. Or try to launch their own startup businesses. Uh-huh.

Sometimes the daily fee is usually between 30 and 50. So that makes it, what, four to six or seven dollars a day? Wow. Okay, now some of them, they claim, comes with lunch, snacks, and drinks. So, man, I just want to show up and pretend to work. Makes me feel good about myself, doesn't it? Or yourself. That's the way to do it.

Maybe, maybe that's what we need to invest in is pretend to work offices. One of the people in the story is quoted as saying, yeah, I usually get there between 8 and 9 a.m. Sometimes I don't leave till 11 p.m. You know, after the manager of the business is left. You mean the pretend manager of the pretend business? Yeah, that. I don't know where you're getting the money to pay for the pretend job.

But it just is kind of weird to me. That's almost weirder than showing up. an address, you know, pretending to be a woman. We have a person pretending to be a woman and we have people pretending to have jobs. That's the world we're living in right now. Although I guess if you're using it to hone skills to actually get a job, then, you know, I guess that makes it okay. It's not a bad idea.

They go on to say that this particular person that I was referring to about the 8 to 11 p.m. person, Mr. Zau, Z-H-O-U. said he's spending his time improving his AI skills. He says he's noticed that some companies are specifying proficiency and AI tools when recruiting. Yeah. So gaining such AI skills will make it easier for him to find a full-time job.

So if that is, if these pretend jobs are making it possible for you to get a real job, then I guess it's okay. You can go ahead and pretend. They say 60% of freelancers. Many of, I'm, and here's the thing. they're not pretend workers or pretend jobs. Okay, I want to apologize. They're referred to as flexible employment professionals.

Yeah, okay? So, sorry, I apologize. It's not a pretend job and it's not a pretend office building and you don't have a pretend boss. You have flexible employment professionals. You got it. No problem. So good luck.

Good luck. God bless. I hope it works out for all of you. say that 60% of the freelancers, many of whom are digital nomads, including those working for big companies, big commerce firms, and cyberspace writers. The average age is around 30, with the youngest being 25. These aren't even teens. Holy cow. Wow. They're their pretend adults, pretending to have a job. But they're flexible employment professionals, sorry. But it is probably cheaper than going to a trade school, you know, paying for some AI school to teach you AI if you can pay to go into this office

and train yourself to become proficient in different AI resources, then you get a full-time job. You know, maybe it's a good idea. You know, maybe, maybe it is, what do I know? But it just sounds, it sounds strange, but that's because it's a whole new idea. Speaking of whole new ideas, I see where Ford announced that it is taking a five, billion gamble to revamp the iconic assembly line so that it can make cheap EVs and compete with Tesla and

Chinese EV rivals. Oh, okay. So it's only, I mean, Henry Ford developed the iconic conveyor belt automaker system. But instead of relying on this single conveyor, the Detroit automaker now will construct EVs on a three-pronged assembly-free

an innovation of the company likened to the Model T, aka the world's first mass-produced automobile, yeah. Workers on each of the three lines will assemble the back, middle, and front of the vehicle separately, after which they will be bolted together. Ford will also invest $2 billion to retool a Kentucky plant that currently makes gas-powered cars where it will use the manufacturing method

to produce mid-size EV pickup trucks, priced at around $30,000. Okay, starting in 2007. The design from Scratch EV is a major pivot from Ford's current strategy of electrifying existing models, which has fallen flat with customers.

Yeah, they're not selling them. That was, I was getting them in my head. I'm thinking, didn't we just do a story not long ago? They can't sell they can't give these things away. Wow. So Ford is betting the new production process, which has developed, was developed by a small Silicon Valley base team led by Tesla veteran,

Alan Clark, will save it time and money. The company says it'll be 15% faster than its current assembly process will involve 20% fewer parts as well as reduce physical strain for workers. The vehicles will be powered by the lithium non-phosphate prismatic battery. Love those, man. You can't get enough of the lithium iron phosphate price prismatic battery, which is favored by the Chinese emakers,

which are 30% cheaper than the lithium batteries Ford currently uses. They'll be produced at a $3 billion Michigan battery plant that Florida is building. Okay. So far, we'll see if that actually works. They claim that because

the people will be driving, if they use these smaller vehicles, these smaller EV vehicles or trucks, in the city, that you don't need it to have these giant batteries. They're only going to be driving, you know, a couple hundred miles, tops a day.

So you just, drive it home and plug it in. And we all know, power is cheap, right? Yeah, yeah, power is cheap. I mean, it'll be just like driving for free, right? Right. Right. It's hockey season, and you can get anything you need delivered with Uber Eats. Well, almost, almost anything. So no, you can't get a nice rank on Uber Eats. But iced tea, ice cream, or just plain old ice? Yes, We deliver those. Goaltenders, no. But chicken tenders, yes.

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Just a side note, which I'm looking for. forward to, that is the first day of, you know, NFL, that's the first week of the National Football League. Because it starts on Thursday. Then you have the, then we get into college football, and then we have the Sunday games. So, you know, football is back in full swing, the first part of September, because the first weekend, that August 30th weekend is the first big weekend of college football. The week before is week zero with, you know, some smaller minor games. They're not minor to the teams playing, Jeff. Yeah, I know. But the big time games start up on the 30th, which I am all about.

I cannot wait for college football. I know. That's just me. It's okay. I'll live with that. No problems. Don't worry about it. All right.

So yesterday, I talked, looked at the lotto and I had it written down on a sheet in front of me. But I think I got it backwards because I went to look to see if someone won the mega last night and the omega drawing, yeah, no one won. But the drawing is today. And I think yesterday I said the power ball was today. So I feel like I got them reversed.

So now I'm actually looking at their actual webpage. So just know that the Powerball drawing last night was for like $501 million and no one won. So it is now worth $526 million, $241.401.0 million

cash value. And that drawing is Wednesday the 13. So if you're listening live today is the 12th of August. So tomorrow, Wednesday, they estimated jackpot drawing probably will go up by the drawing time. But right now it's $526 million. Pretty sweet. And mega millions, that jackpot is today, the 12th of August or tonight. That is $182 million, $82.1 million cash payout.

So I feel like in my head, I'm pretty sure yesterday I said those backwards. and I don't know why. Maybe I'm a loto dyslexic or loto lexic. That's what I am. I'm lotto lexic. But a lotto lexic or not, if you're going to win, you know, 82 million cash payout

or 241 million cash payout, after you get everything arranged, the thing that you're going to want to do is move. And you're going to want to move to a place of your choosing. And that's when you're going to need help. Whether you're a multi-millionaire or not, you're still going to want a good real estate agent. So that's when you go to real estate agents,

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for all U.S. fights, okay? All U.S. fights. So still not international, really. But Paramount Global secured the exclusive U.S. media rights for the UFC events

in a seven-year deal valued at $7.7 billion. Dana White was a very happy man yesterday. The man. who heads up UFC.

I mean, Paramount Global, Sky Dance. Now, I don't know what they call themselves now. Sky Mount, Mount Sky, I don't know, whatever they call themselves now. They got exclusive rights to stream UFC fights for the seven-year deal, $7.7 billion. I will say this. I kind of like it.

There's not going to be any more pay-per-views. You just have to be a subscriber to Paramount Plus. Okay, so I kind of like that. It's kind of a big deal. So Disney paid UFC annually to show fights on ESPN Plus. That signals an end of the pay-per-view model, and the mixed martial arts.org had embraced for decades. Yeah, the pay-per-view was what they did.

So under current ESPN Plus deal, which expires next year, fans need to pay for both the based monthly streaming subscription and the additional pay-per-view fees to watch the bigger event. right, which was always a pain. Once the new partnership begins in 2026, fans of the UFC only, you just have to pay the monthly subscription to Paramount Plus,

what I said, for zero additional costs. Yeah, that's the way I understood the deal. So that's pretty good. Now, apparently, some fights would be samo cast on linear CBS. Now, that's pretty cool.

And I heard Dana in an interview, Dana White, the head of UFC, talk about the UFC, of C-fight that they're talking about having at the White House on July 4th. I believe that's going to be on CBS as well. So you'll be able to catch that on Parabal Plus, but that will also be on CBS. So congratulations to them. I know, you know, ESPN and Fox Sports, just we talked about that Fox 1 that they're

hooking up together. Well, they're not hooking up. Well, they are hook it up together. I don't know which one is wearing a dress, but they're hooking up with each other on that. And congratulations to Netflix as well, because Netflix has got the deal with WWE for live. And they've got some deals with the NFL as well over the Christmas broadcast. So they've got their hooks in the NFL and now the WWE for live sporting events. So, I mean, Netflix is, everybody wants to live sporting events. Amazon has got a lot of soccer

and they've got NFL on Thursdays. So that's pretty sweet. So, you know, they'll have the ESPN. I'm a little concerned about the ESPN. I'm a little concerned about the ESP. P-N-plus thing because I'm not sure and the Disney Hulu thing because I've got all of those and Hulu's going away to just Disney Plus and that ESPN-plus is adding a bunch of stuff. I just feel like when I start hearing all that,

I'm going to get hosed because I have the Hulu live and then I pay for the extra ESPN Plus. And the only reason I pay for the extra ESPN Plus is because I want to watch college football. and that way I can get almost all the games on ESPN Plus. Somewhere on ESPN is broadcasting a college football game that I want to watch, multiple games on Saturdays, and I love it. I love it.

I don't, and then the NFL deal comes in, and I'm not real sure if I'm going to end up, because I really don't, I like the NFL and I watch the NFL, but I'm not, I don't care about having access to all the games that I can get to. Anyway, so I think I'm going to have all that, but I just feel like I'm going to get hosed with fees. And I don't know why I feel that way. I just feel like Disney and ESPN are going to find a way to hose me, which means they're going to hose you.

And that pisses me off. So, and then as I was started with Netflix, they just extended their creative partnership with Archwell production. Megan and Bert Terry. Yeah, we can't let them go. No way. Netflix does not end that deal. So I don't know what good they've done. done for Netflix, but they still are not going to make that deal go away.

So Megan and Prince Harry continue their creative partnership, you know, Archwell Productions, with Netflix. So we'll see if anything good comes to that, except for them being able to live in their in their gated community. I mean, we can't have them living in any less of a dump than they're living in now, right? All right, let's go to the break room. I need something called to drink desperately. I was reading this story this morning about David Justice, former Major League Baseball player.

He played back in the early aughts. And he was really good, and he was a great baseball player. Back then, he was making like $7 million a year. And I think he's probably, according to reports, he's worth $40 million. And that's probably not bad. I would like to be worth $40 million. I am not. Not even close.

I'm worth like maybe $4. But, so he's still, you know, he's got a little money. And he was on this All the Smoke podcast, which I love. You can't get enough of all the Smoke podcast. And I don't know what other deals he has going or whatever, but he's David Justice, former Major League Baseball player. And he was married to Hallie Berry. And that was a long time ago.

I mean, it was almost 30 years ago. So on this podcast, and I think he's talked about it before. But on this podcast, they brought up, you know, being married to Hallie. Barry. And I am a fan of anyone who was married to Halliberry. Hello. I love Hallibary. Always have. It's embarrassing the way she looks at me. Even during the time that she was with David Justice, the way she looked at me during those times. I mean, it was just, it was embarrassing. I was embarrassed for her. Anyway, he said the reason that they got divorced is because I'm a young guy and she don't cook, she don't clean, don't really seem motherly, and then we started having issues.

Yeah, here's the deal, Dave. She's Halliberry, okay? She don't need to cook. She don't need to clean. And she don't need to be motherly. Okay, she's Hallie Berry. And while you're only worth 40 million, how much is Halley worth these days?

I bet she's worth at least 100. Okay, according to this, 90 million, Halley's worth 90. So you'd be doing a little bit better. I had you stayed with Halley, Dave. You know, just don't worry about it. Have the do people cook for you and clean for you. Okay?

If you want kids, have kids. And then you have do people to take care of the kids with you. Don't worry about what Hallie does, okay? If you marry Halleyberry, and maybe that's the thing. And good for him for getting out of it, if that's the thing, because that's what he wanted, right? He was just a Midwestern guy, you know, playing him. baseball and that's what he wanted out of his woman he wanted his he wanted his mom someone who uh you know

cooks and cleans and takes care of the kids hallie's not going to do that for you and you know good for him for getting away from it got it because uh i mean you're going into uh when you're going into hallie berry territory uh you're not worried about cooking and cleaning from hallie okay uh hallie man when you got to clean this dump up what are you doing yeah that's not happening Okay. Oh, I should have mentioned this with Netflix news. I see where Michael Bay has exited Netflix's fast and loose. And he just said, have a nice day, I'm out.

And they say that it was because of creative differences with Will Smith. Oh, okay. So the streamer Netflix is saying, we are looking to shoot this action thriller, you know, next year. And we need to, you know, get this thing. going and Michael Bay is like yeah I'm not working with Will Smith wow okay good luck

and maybe it was over brand placement I don't know I see where there's people are getting all wound up now because of the F1 movie and the Jurassic World Rebirth and Superman they're definitely putting it in our faces it's about time actually I'm surprised

that it's taken this long to have product placement so in our face I mean F1 brought in No, like, I don't know, 40 million from Tommy Hilfiger and Mercedes and Jurassic World Rebirth. Hello, jeeps. You're everywhere. Plus, Dr. Pepper and Frito Lay products.

Okay. And plus, I think they did, I think they did 7-Eleven deals with those products as well, along with the Jurassic World Rebirth movie. Superman partnered with Milkbone for Super Dog Crypto. They had co-branded treats and DC COX. I mean, it's absolutely in our face. But at least they're trying to save the ads, which, I don't know. I mean, look, they claim, uh, with condition with the viewer skipping, blocking or scrolling past traditional commercials.

Yeah, but you don't allow it now. So you've kind of, you know, all your, all you're whining about, oh, the viewer skipping past commercials, you don't let us do that any longer, do you? so I quit your whining about that so now you're getting it both ways you're making us you heard me you're getting it both ways I get it in the front

because I can't fast forward through commercials and I get it at the end because now you're putting products in the shows on purpose so look I okay fine I'm in it's just an Amazon

you know if I unless I spend another $2.99 a month I got to watch commercials for shows I watch on Amazon and I don't know why but we've talked about it but that's my line in the sand. I just refuse to pay the extra $2.99. I already pay you money so that I could get Amazon Prime and have all your access to movies and shows. And yet you still want to charge me more. And I just, I, what they should have done is just raised the price for the entire thing. But no, they're not doing that because, and I have a feeling I know why, because they're going to want to eventually. I'm surprised they haven't done it already. is break off Amazon Prime film or movie or TV or whatever they want to call it and Amazon Prime

business. But I don't think they're afraid to do that because it's one big happy family now. Well, I don't know about happy family, but it's one big family. And people are really used to having it all with Amazon Prime. So why did it make it separate to pay for commercials? Just add on the money and say, here you go. I don't know. I don't know. It just ticks me off. So it's my line in the sand with Amazon.

So apparently, they are now saying that studios are saying, well, you know, we can do brand partnerships, sophisticated integrations that solve all three problems in one. Really? Yeah. Now brands are, you know, with each film crafting its own unique approach.

Deals range from 50,000 for passive background plays. Yeah, we can put your soda can in the picture there for $50,000. Oh, okay. Or they apparently, if you want actual placement, $5 million for prime positioning. Now you're talking about probably more than, way more than $5 million, but for sure, at least $5 million for prime placement. I mean, that's what they did for F1.

Holy cow. Brad Pitt, they must have made a fortune, let alone the movie's doing fine. Movies proven that it worked. So that's going to happen. Now, I will say this. We talked about people making their own deals and making their own films now. Dick's Sporting Goods has launched its own production studio.

They're going to make sports documentaries joining a handful of other brands who've decided it's easier to create content than negotiate for placement. Wow. So, okay, there you go. They'll create the production, create it themselves, and you can probably go to DickSportinggoods.com and subscribe to their website, or they'll sign a deal with Netflix, with Amazon Prime, with Paramount Plus, with ESPN Plus, and you'll be able to watch exclusive Dick Sporting Goods productions. So, yeah, now how excited are you?

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Two people were found dead and ten others were injured. Many of the injuries were non-life-threatening. That's according to the Allegheny County Emergency Services. The explosion occurred inside a battery operating area of the plant and triggered several secondary explosions. The cause of the incident still under investigation. The Claritin site employs about 1,300 people. So, see. We'll find out what the cause of this explosion was. I'm sure that it will be some non-union

employee who screwed up. It's just a thought for me. There's just, you never know. Rest in peace to the two people who died, by the way, in that explosion. Then we have this man. First, let me say, rest in peace to Anasca Sites who passed away at the age of 36. Now, I don't know how she passed away,

but they found her on a sofa that she'd been sitting on for a couple of years. So Jamie Stevens carried on living in his flat. Of course, this was in the UK because they call it a flat. So he covered his ex-girlfriend's

dead body with a blanket and left her on his sofa. for more than two years. Where's the crime? Where's the crime in that? He's been jailed for that. Where's the crime? She just died and he covered her up and moved on.

It was just terrible. So her last known sighting was in May of 2022. I mean, she wasn't found until May of this year. That had to be some serious smell going on from that flat. uh he was uh remanded in custody and he just said yeah look i uh she died and uh i just covered her up and uh i left her there oh okay yeah uh the police came by and i told him i hadn't seen her and then i just didn't answer the door anymore and but they did no one smelled that no one smelled an uska an uska a n o us k

A. At some point, there had to be a number of air fresheners hanging in the room, and that still does not cover up deceased body smell. But apparently, wherever they lived, nobody cared. So they finally, they said that there were various fragrance items scattered around. Yeah, you think? No kidding. He had a relationship with her, and he said he went to his own bed and left her sleeping in the living room the next day. I came up and she was dead on the sofa. So I threw a blanket over her and moved down with my life. It's so sad.

So rest in peace. To Anuska Sites, dead at the age of 36. Then we have Janet Nelson Berger. Janet Nelson Berger dead at the age of 87. Now, man, do I wish I would have talked to her before she passed away. She died with complications from pneumonia, and she had complications from a stroke. It's very sad. But Janet Nelsonberger began her career as a secretary at CBS in the mid-50s

before rising to become a production assistant and casting director in an era when few women held managerial roles in network television. Yeah, I wonder why that was. So she would have been fascinating to see what she had to do to rise up to those positions. Get your mind out of the gutter right now. Do not even start with me. I just want to know with the hard work of dedication she had to do

to rise to such heights at CBS. when she started just as a secretary as CBS in the mid-50s. So it was hard work and dedication, I'm sure. So rest in peace to Janet Nelsonberger, dead at the age of 87. Then we have Ava M-I-C-H-A-L. I don't know how Ava pronounced it. I'm sure it was Michelle, but McCall. Ava McCall-H-H-H-H-H-H-L.

dead at the age of 27, known as David before the transition. And before she said that he now is a she. She had a full-time job as a bus driver in Chicago, was working, was being treated like a woman like she wanted. But because people getting on and off the bus would refer to her as male, she couldn't take it he couldn't take it so I guess she looked more like a man

as they were working for the Chicago Transit Authority in her uniform so sadly so so sad but she jumped in front of a train I just why why would do no one knows no one knows apparently no one there was no no indication

that he was suicidal Uh-huh. So she got her bus license seven months earlier, passed the probation area, and so it was all good, according to the people around her, him. But not really, because people would call her, sir, and that was not good. That was something.

So, you know, it was almost if there was some sort of mental problem going on there when because she thought that she was a female and then she's not so then when people said

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As I'm sure, all of you know, Donald Trump is, you know, taking over Washington, D.C. He's taking it back. He's taking it back. We're bringing in the troops. We're going to stop all crime. We're going to cover up the graffiti. And we're going to make the streets safe again.

And that's what's happening in Washington, D.C. Now, there's a lot of people that are for crime. And they're for crime because Donald Trump is against it. So they are fighting Donald Trump every step of the way. However, yesterday, in his little speech, in his little press conference where they had all his people there, and he was talking about what he was going to do and how he's going to take over D.C. And how he could do that because it's Washington, D.C., it's not a state. And he could do that.

he told a little story by his father and I was reminded of a story that my grandfather always said and it's a little bit different than what Donald Trump said but Donald Trump's story is about his dad not his grandfather you know my father always used to tell me he had a wonderful father very smart and he used to say son

when you walk into a restaurant and you see a dirty front door, don't go in. Okay. Because if the front door is dirty, the kitchen's dirty also. Yep, wise man. Same thing with the Capitol. Same thing with the Capitol. If our Capitol is dirty,

front door the country is dirty. That's right. And they don't respect us. And we can't have that. We cannot have people not respecting us. Now, I get it. It's a cute little analogy. And it talks about a dirty door means the restaurant is dirty.

But my grandfather, and I have been a part of him walking out of a restaurant, always said, if the bathrooms are dirty, don't eat at the restaurant. And we have actually, as a kid, I remember going into a restaurant and sitting down and we ordered our drinks. And my grandfather got up and went to the bathroom and he came out and he said, we're out of here. We're not eating here. And off we went. And I'm like, wait, what?

I'm hungry. I want my burger. So what? We're finding another place. We're not eating here. the bathroom is too disgusting, and I don't trust that, that the kitchen is clean. And we got up and left. And that's, I mean, that's a good rule of thumb.

So if that's the way, but nobody has mentioned, which I believe is a good analogy, and I trust me, I believe that to be true. And if you go into a bathroom of a restaurant, it is not clean, I would not trust the kitchen one bit, and I would go eat somewhere else. I would go get my food somewhere else. However, it does seem to be, and I want it to happen. I'm all for it, let it be, clean it up, get rid of the crime. People should be, feel safe to be able to walk down the streets in cities that they live in.

Absolutely 100% believe that. But we are, you know, nobody's made, none of the Democrats have made, because they hate Trump so much, they just think that he's becoming a dictator. But nobody's made the analogy of capital city in the Hunger Games. That city was clean as a whistle, wasn't it? I know. I know. So maybe we use that as an example. Instead of just the hatred of Trump,

use that as an analogy that, you know, the capital city is being cleaned up because there's a dictator running the country. But I don't believe that to be true. I'm just saying that they should. Because I heard some speeches yesterday from people advocating against cleaning up the city of D.C. That made me think,

yeah, you know, what you're saying is not true, but I kind of wish it was. You know, another thing that I, you know, that isn't true, but I kind of wish was, I see where Rosie O'Donnell is predicting that ABC will cancel the view to appease Trump. And I don't think that's true,

but I kind of wish it was. It's just me. I know. I know. I think that the view makes it. too much money. We'll see, maybe they don't. When you look at the financials, maybe they don't. They pay

they play those god-awful women a lot of money and so maybe they don't make a lot of money. But if the show is still making money, then it's not going anywhere no matter how terrible they are. But if Rosie O'Donnell thinks that they're going to be

canceled to appease Trump and that happens, man, what a shame that would be. Huh? I know. I know. All right, so yesterday I told the joke and I rewrote it. And so the person who wrote it, Todd emailed me saying he was mad at me for, how did he put it? Grammar shaming him. No shame intended.

No shame at all intended. I was just trying to, you know, help a brother out and write the joke the way it should be written. Now, some jokes are terrible. Like this joke, I've seen this joke now. It was sent to me. I don't know, 10 days ago. Or so, yeah, about 10 days ago. And I've looked at it multiple times, and I don't understand it.

And usually I don't share it with you, you know, these jokes. But I want to be clear that I wasn't grammar shaming. I was just pointing out, helping people out write better jokes. Some jokes. I'm not going to say who wrote this because that would be shaming them. But, man, you know who you are. And man, if this is the best you can do, just give it up. Okay.

So after 18 years of service, my boss fired me today. I turned in my gun and my badge. He said, you're a waiter. Where did you get those? See, I don't get it. I'm trying to work my head around it and I don't get it. And every time I read it, I try to figure out what he means. and it's not there.

So give up. All right. I appreciate. I appreciate everything. I'm not going to say your name because I don't want to, I don't want to joke shame you. But, uh, wow. Uh, maybe you deserve to be joke shamed.

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